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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2012
Applicants:

Raymond Lee Abma, Houston, TX (US);

Gerard Joseph Beaudoin, Houston, TX (US);

Zhiyong Jiang, Katy, TX (US);

Inventors:

Raymond Lee Abma, Houston, TX (US);

Gerard Joseph Beaudoin, Houston, TX (US);

Zhiyong Jiang, Katy, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/38 (2006.01); G01V 1/28 (2006.01); G01V 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to an embodiment of the instant invention there is provided a method for collecting a blended source seismic survey that utilizes new approach to determining a random time separation between successive shots. The random time separation may be drawn in some embodiments from a distribution of uniformly distributed numbers, with τ>1/(2 f), where τ is the half-width of the uniform distribution and f is the lowest frequency of interest in the survey.


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